Selfless Quotes

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Pakistan

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Greatness, Men, Giving

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• The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Cutting, Self

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• Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Hero, People, Ordinary

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

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• Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Selfish, Humility, Heart

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• We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Selfless Giving

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• Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.

  Eric Felten

  Loyalty, Together, Age

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• The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

  David Jeremiah

  Attitude, Love Is, Feelings

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball

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• Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

  Nina Hagen

  Selfless Giving, Aggravation, People

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Children, Real

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Spirit, Equal

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• A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

  Mortimer Adler

  Unselfish Love, Benevolent, Unselfishness

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, God Love, Work Love

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

  Veronica Roth

  Kindness, Smart, Struggle

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• Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

  Sivananda

  Moksha, Way, Salvation

  "Immortal Teachings of Sri Swami Sivananda". Book by Swami Sivananda, p. 29, 1957.

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• Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

  Edward Albert

  Selfish, Sometimes, Being Selfish

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